Citation Integrity™ API
Bring Citation Integrity™ into your systems
The CiteAbility™ API is designed to make Citation Integrity™ information programmatically accessible. For businesses today. For AI infrastructure tomorrow.
Available to any CiteAbility™ account. There is no separate API subscription or setup fee. Usage is billed through Credits at a flat rate for the number of citations checked — from 8 Credits for up to 5 citations.
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Key takeaways.
- The API exposes Citation Integrity™ checks, scores and certification verification to your own systems.
- Requests are authenticated with keys you create and revoke yourself.
- Usage is metered in CiteAbility™ Credits, so cost is visible before you scale.
- The API is available to every CiteAbility™ account, with no separate subscription.
Today
Business and enterprise applications
Organisations may use the Citation Integrity™ API to integrate information into:
- Internal dashboards
- Reporting systems
- Governance platforms
- Monitoring workflows
- Content systems
- Enterprise applications
Tomorrow
AI infrastructure applications
The longer-term API opportunity extends to:
- AI providers
- Enterprise RAG systems
- Retrieval platforms
- Answer engines
- AI agents
- Knowledge systems
Citation Integrity™ information could serve as an additional input when systems evaluate candidate information or evidence.
Boundaries
CiteAbility™ does not dictate AI outputs
The Citation Integrity™ API provides information. It does not instruct an AI provider what it must cite.
The external provider remains responsible for:
- Retrieval
- Ranking
- Citation selection
- Answer generation
- Policy
- Model behaviour
How it could work
Potential workflow
Step 01
Information retrieved
Step 02
Citation Integrity™ evaluated
Step 03
Structured integrity information provided
Step 04
AI provider applies its own policies
Step 05
Evidence may be used, qualified, deprioritised or rejected
Step 06
Answer generated
Proprietary methodology
Built around proprietary methodology
API outputs may expose Citation Integrity™ information and permitted Dimension-level data.
They will not expose proprietary scoring formulas, weights, underlying internal signals, thresholds or decision logic.
Next step
Build Citation Integrity™ into your workflow.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
The questions organisations ask us most often.
- What can the API do?
- Check a page, retrieve an assessment or score, and verify a certification code, so Citation Integrity™ data can feed your own dashboards and pipelines.
- How is API usage charged?
- Calls consume CiteAbility™ Credits from your balance, with the rate shown per operation so you can estimate cost in advance.
- Is the API available on every plan?
- Yes. Any account can create a key, and calls use CiteAbility™ Credits. There is no separate API subscription or setup fee.